Neuroscience and the Biology of Behavior
The inbox on your e-mail program gathers messages from many places. In doing so, it is like the __________ of a neuron.
dendrites
Bernard is walking around smelling the flowers and feeling the warmth of the sun on his face. Bernard is in what state of consciousness?
waking
The __________ stage of prenatal development occurs after implantation in the female uterus around two weeks after conception and continues until eight weeks of gestation.
embryonic
William James defined __________ as unlearned complex behaviors with a fixed pattern throughout a species.
instincts
________ can be explained as a strengthening or weakening in synapses over time based on changes in synaptic activity.
Synaptic plasticity
You are discussing why people need sleep with your friend, Kila. She states she believes that sleep occurs so the body can grow and develop. She is expressing the __________ theory of sleep.
Growth
Dr. Avenatti wants to examine changes in working memory performance over time. In order to do so, Dr. Avenatti collects data from multiple age groups (ages 5, 15, 25, 45, and 65) in 2018 and again in 2028. This illustrates a __________ research design.
cross-sequential
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which needs represent the second level of the hierarchy?
safety
Levi was born with blue eyes; however, both his biological parents have brown eyes. This means that both parents were ______ for brown eyes
heterozygous
The primary wave form during N3 sleep is _________.
Delta
Someone who believes that caring for others and conforming to social laws is right simply because they are the rules within society is in what stage of moral development, according to Kohlberg?
Conventional morality
According to the dual center model of hunger and satiety, what part of the brain is responsible for controlling the experience of satiety (or feeling full)?
Ventromedial hypothalamus